NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) Traveled 3800km and Im to old for it. Close friends father passed away in Texas. We decided to rent a van and drive out to Texas from NC to get his guns, and trophies. The plan was to put his fishing gear to use and follow the gulf coast to throw a few cast. Long drive but fun little trip. When stayed in his dads place in Dallas TX at Highland park. Highland park is like a high end place where everyone drives $100,000+ cars, Beverly Hills of TX. We went to the Holland and Holland Gallery and were treated very well. Down the road at the Berreta gallery we were kinda snubbed a little bit. My friend asked to see a shotgun and the guy said if he was serious he would arrange a private viewing and the price of the shotgun was $250,000. 😂. But nothing was priced at berreta so how was we to know. Once outside of Dallas Texas was flat with cattle all the way to the horizon for miles and miles. The van loaded up Edited March 28, 2022 by NoBodyImportant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 From Texas we went south East into Louisiana where the state is basically all swamp. Miles and miles of absolutely nothing. Spent the night in Baton Rouge and in the morning we rolled into New Orleans. I hadn’t been in New Orleans since before Hurricane Katrina wiped out a large chunk. It’s still ****ty as I remember though. Drugs, prostitution, gambling cesspool. But the old buildings of the French Quarter always are cool to look at. Lots of weirdos that speak a mix of French and English walking around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) But the most amazing architecture is out side the city where there are no building codes. Mile and miles of water front self built homes. Everyone doesn’t have the same ability to self build a home. This is a metal shed on a platform Lots for campers Converted bus that was a hair Solon Converted bus that was a hair solon. And this attempt Edited March 28, 2022 by NoBodyImportant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Then you have a castle 😂 This guy was doing pretty good at his self build Being ocean front a house boat is a good choice incase of floods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Found a amazing little store in I believe in Boloxi Mississippi. Or so I believe this is where it was. I stopped in a hundred gun stores on the trip looking for little gems to collect. The guy spoke really bad Louisiana French so I could not talk to him much but he had some really cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) Crossing the Mississippi River you get a peak of hallowed ground, the LSU stadium Edited March 28, 2022 by NoBodyImportant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 The weird road side stuff you see in Alabama. This is by the high way at the gate to to the NASA Rocket testing center, they are open for tours but since we were in a van carrying 20 guns and about 15,000 rounds of ammo we decided to stay clear of the government compounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 That was one hell of a road trip we do well going 80 miles to Skeggy, very interesting to see the pictures of your trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie to this Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Sounds like great fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Interesting pictures of the self builds thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Great photos of a part of America rarely seen on our screens here. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Fabulous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Brilliant photos. I love the houses especially the castle. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouser Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 And I thought my 1800mls on the NC 500 was a trip. No nice long flat roads there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchers Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 2 hours ago, B725 said: That was one hell of a road trip we do well going 80 miles to Skeggy, very interesting to see the pictures of your trip. Some right sights there though 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 To the OP, thanks for sharing your experience 👍👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 The world is definitely coming to an end....the Yanks have change to kms. Great trip and thanks for sharing. Brought back loads of memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 A brilliant road trip thanks for sharing, love the big open spaces you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Brilliant write up. Thank you. The trip is pretty much how I do a holiday to the U.S. when I go there. What’s with the kilometres? We don’t even have those in England. Most folk here have no idea how far a kilometre is. But I notice the stupid, woke BBC keeps using the term occasionally on the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Brilliant write up with photos to match , good to see the little gems the tourist don't get a chance to look at. Reminded me of the time when we were on a coach trip in California and it was far to hot to travel across the desert as it was melting the luggage on one of the coaches that did go across, so the driver went around the outside and we stopped at little places well off the main tourist route , one little place had a small cafe so while the rest of the passengers were queing up for a coffee I wandered down the street to look in the little hardware shop , whilst looking around I spotted three or four well made English hammer guns resting up the corner and the owner was a friendly chap who didn't see many English guys in this small village or whatever they call a small place over there , while looking at them he said if I was interested he would had sold me the guns for next to nothing but getting them back over here would had cost a small fortune , lovely country by the way . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 thanks for that ...great report Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Great write up and pictures , thank you for sharing your journey . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntly Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 That looks fantastic, I hope to visit the US someday and do a road trip like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 8 hours ago, Walker570 said: The world is definitely coming to an end....the Yanks have change to kms. Great trip and thanks for sharing. Brought back loads of memories. 😂, I literally googled the conversation just for you guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 25 minutes ago, NoBodyImportant said: 😂, I literally googled the conversation just for you guys Hah! but there are still a lot of us about who think in miles and our speed limits are still in MPH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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